Rare Decays and Flavour Anomalies
R. Forty · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2018
also including results from ATLAS, BaBar, Belle and CMS Roger Forty Rare Decays and Flavour Anomalies 3 "Box" "Penguin" "Tree" N. Tuning, ICHEP2018 Roger Forty Rare Decays and Flavour Anomalies 4 Mont Blanc 1.The LHCb experiment LHC (tunnel is ~100 m underground) • Forward-peaked production of b-hadrons at the LHC: → LHCb is a forward spectrometer (in collider mode) • bb cross-section = 154.3± 1.5 ± 14.3 μb at √s = 13 TeV → ~100,000 bb pairs produced/second (10 4 × B factories) and all species of b hadron: B + , B 0 , B s 0 , B c + , Λ b 0 … • Charm production ~20× higher PYTHIA Spectrometer Roger Forty Rare Decays and Flavour Anomalies 5 JINST 3:S08005 (2008)